Zoë Meager

My digital collage as editorial for the 112th issue of @takahemagazine takahe.org.nz/editorial-112/ With thanks to @linedealer ❤️🤍🖤💚

Out now! The 114th issue of takahē is free online for everyone to enjoy. takahe.org.nz/takahe-114/ This issue is a little slimmer, but just as carefully curated with new words and art to challenge, stimulate and engross. We hope you love it. Let us know your favourites! 🖤

@BristolPrize @Morris78L Thanks so much! Can’t wait to read the anthology 🧡

Congratulations to this year's winners and to all the writers featured in the Volume 17 anthology. Read all their stories: bit.ly/4l0zhk8 @Morris78L @ZoeMeager #writing #shortstories #writingcompetitions

@BristolPrize Thanks, lovely Bristol 🩵

What if you had to let go of the things you love, one at a time, until you had nothing left? Could you do it? What if you didn’t have a choice? 📚 @ZoeMeager's story joins our next anthology. Learn more and meet all our shortlisted authors: bit.ly/4dZRhIB

@DebAshWat @BristolPrize Thanks so much, Debra! 🩵

@BristolPrize @ZoeMeager Looking forward to reading it @ZoeMeager

of course there’s a gap in the literature. that’s how the light gets in

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

If you are Hamas, and you misidentify one body, you will be called barbaric and evil. If you are Israel, and you dump dozens of unidentified dead bodies in Gaza, you’ll receive 58 standing ovations from the US Congress.

Read the wonderful ‘Hotaru’ by Samantha Oakley, free in the latest issue of takahē 💛 takahe.org.nz/hotaru/

15 months of total impunity has made it possible for the US president to say that he plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza while he sits next to a wanted war criminal. International law is dead unless every single news outlet, politician, human being calls this what it is: genocide

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.” This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with James Baldwin from the archive. buff.ly/3dC4FD5

@lostballoonmag @Lissa_M_H Wow! Love this piece 💙

The ceasefire is of course a huge relief. But it is too little too late. Our work continues, demanding an end to apartheid and for war criminals to be brought to justice. Land grab in the West Bank is a reality. We must keep talking about Gaza

We're calling for non fiction poetry, flash prose and creative non fiction for an anthology to be edited by @thisgirl_writes @imaginesinlove Beau Windon & Misbah Wolf💜#Poetry #DisabilityWriting #flashprose #CreativeNonFiction Guidelines: tinyurl.com/yhunu7fv

Thrilled to be running three creative writing workshops responding to the National Library of Scotland's exhibition 'Tusitala' Pacific Perspectives on Robert Louis Stevenson nls.uk/whats-on/creat…

Uruguay’s former president Pepe Mujica, who was known as “the world’s poorest president and humblest head of state”, is dying. Stop and read his reflections: archive.is/Kil4J